In my Daily Standard column, I discuss the efforts of mainstream Democrats to find a middle ground between a prompt withdrawal from Iraq and a withdrawal when conditions on the ground permit. The emerging “solution” is withdrawal during a fixed time frame in the future. During the Clinton presidency, this type of difference splitting was called triangulation.
Not to be outdone, Hillary Clinton is seeking to triangulate her party’s triangulation. According to the Washington Post, Senator Clinton rejects a fixed timetable which, she recognizes, “the terrorists can exploit.” But she also rejects a non-time specific policy, such as finishing the job, because it “has no ending attached to it.”
How to split the difference between not having a timetable and having one? Bill Clinton, call your wife.
Notice: All comments are subject to moderation. Our comments are intended to be a forum for civil discourse bearing on the subject under discussion. Commenters who stray beyond the bounds of civility or employ what we deem gratuitous vulgarity in a comment — including, but not limited to, “s***,” “f***,” “a*******,” or one of their many variants — will be banned without further notice in the sole discretion of the site moderator.